Word: reforest
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...political triviality on the New York State ballot. Submitted to the people was a proposal to amend the Constitution so that the State might spend some $20,000 over a period of years buying up abandoned farms and denuded lands ad joining State parks, and proceed to reforest them. Governor Roosevelt, Tam many Hall and all New York Republicans supported the proposal on a non-partisan basis. Mr. Smith startled his party by a slashing and repeated attack on the Amendment as a "gold brick" designed only to benefit the lumber and pulp companies which had cut over...